Blazing Trails

If you’re a parent, you likely want your kid to flourish and succeed. And according to guest today, Jessica Lahey, the best way to do that is to let your kid fail. Jessica is a teacher and New York Times best-selling author of the book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. On today's episode she shares how to learn to step back and embrace your child’s failures for their future success and resiliency. This episode was published first by B-Well Together, our sister podcast.

How can companies better know and connect to their customers and build more trust? That's a question Seth Godin, marketing guru and founding editor of The Carbon Almanac and Brian Solis, VP and Global Innovation at Salesforce and best-selling author, try to answer in this week's episode. They discuss some fascinating findings from our just released State of the Connected Customer report.It’s our 5th edition and features insights from nearly 17,000 consumers and business buyers worldwide. Tune in to find out what's at the heart of it.

Cities are vital to the world's economies and play a key role in combating climate change. They are responsible for 40% of total energy consumption and up to 70% of greenhouse gas emissions according to a recent report by Deloitte. How can we make cities more sustainable? That's a question that Kiran Bhatraju, CEO and Founder of Arcadia and Maisie Hughes, Senior Director of Urban Forestry, American Forests try to answer this week in a discussion moderated by Nick Lichtenberg, Executive News Editor at Fortune Magazine.

It’s that time of year again! Trailblazer DX - The Salesforce Developer Conference is back in person and online!

And in this episode of Blazing Trails we are going to get a preview with Salesforce Co-founder and CTO Parker Harris. Parker will discuss the evolution of the Salesforce platform and the power of seamlessly integrated automation and how that is transformational to the customer experience.

Trailblazer DX is happening on April 27th and 28th in-person in San Francisco, and, of course, you can join online at Salesforce Plus. Just go to Salesforce.com/plus and register with a Trailblazer ID to join.

How irreversibly have we altered the natural world?

That’s a question climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert has been trying to answer for decades while reporting on the environment for The New Yorker magazine.

In her Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. In her latest book - Under a White Sky - The Nature of the Future she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.

And today—in recognition of Earth Day, she joins Patrick Flynn, SVP and Global Head of Sustainability at Salesforce, to discuss what steps we need to take to reign in carbon emissions and save our planet.

Mentions:

Elizabeth’s Book – Under a White Sky, the Nature of the Future

IPCC Global Climate Predictions

Cyber warfare is no longer the stuff of science. fiction As the world has become digital, modern conflicts extend dangerously to the cyber-world. Urgent protection of critical online infrastructures – including communication, finance, and the grid -- is a priority for everyone

This conversation with Taher Elgamal, the “father of SSL” -- or website encryption – is more relevant than ever. Taher dives into the past, present, and future of cybersecurity, underlining the gravity of stopping malware and ransomware in time.

Artificial Intelligence is all around us, shaping our world and experience, sometimes undetected. Inherent biases in machine learning have become apparent. Now is the time for proactive thinking, planning, and directing this useful tool for the good of society, rather than for the bad.

Author Jacob Ward along with Kathy Baxter, Principal Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce, join Michael Rivo in this critical conversation around debiasing AI and ensuring it has a positive impact on our lives and world.

Mentions:

• The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
• Salesforce AI Ethics Model
• Benioff Ocean Initiative
• OECD AI Principles

Women and people of color have been left out of the financial growth conversation for too long, and Ellevest CEO & Co-Founder Sallie Krawcheck is here to do something about it. She sits down with #BossTalks host Ebony Beckwith, Chief Philanthropy Officer at Salesforce, to share her tips for taking control of your financial future and achieve financial wellness,

Nearly losing his son to cancer, and personally experiencing the inefficiencies of the healthcare system, convinced Mark Bertolini, former chairman and CEO of Aetna, to try and change the industry for all. In this week’s episode, Global Advisory Board member Mark Bertolini, and LaShonda Anderson-Williams EVP and CRO for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Salesforce discuss how data-driven solutions are transforming the healthcare industry.

The complex events over the last several years have converged to create a trust crisis. The opportunity for businesses to step up as role models during this time is great.

Here to talk about this “trust crisis” and more are two members of Salesforce's Global Advisory Board, Helena Foulkes, a former CVS executive, and Rudy Cline-Thomas, the Founder and Managing Partner of the venture fund Mastry. With perspectives from the worlds of business, government, and investing, Helena and Rudy explain how to foster trust even in risky environments. They also explore the benefits of fostering a beginner’s mindset and lay a framework for mutually beneficial partnerships.